The last hundred years in America and abroad, the farm and food production industry has revolutionized and been expanded past recognition of the simple entity it once was. It has been studied that the majority of food at the store, though seemingly varitous, is distributed by only a handful of monopoly companies (Food Inc.: great movie, it is eye-opening to the food industry). The result is that exotic, foreign food items are normal commodities to the middle-class (and above) diet. The implications of this new system of food production, transportation, and commercial resale has raised questions and inspired a local food promoting movement to combat such practices. Main goals of these “Locavores” include: reduced CO2 emissions, more tasty and nutritious produce, and a revival of local economies. Upon considering Locavoristic ideals in a realistic community, to be applied in full effect, I believe it would work cooperatively with the larger scale foreign production; a balance of domestic and foreign food production. I think a combined effort of a community towards a goal would refresh and remind the world of how we humans lived for thousands of years. It would benefit a community to then consider what changes, societal and technologically, cannot be undone and must be accounted for when applying the Locavore concept. Such things like jobs, and expanded variety of food that are benefits of our more “foreign-vore”, modern ways.

In Jennifer Maiser’s web document from 2006 amny common people share their reasons and personal appeal to locally grown food. Aside from cost figures, relative CO2 emissions, and economist concerns, fresh well grown food seems to invigorate people and make them fell good. A common mistake in modern analyses is to ignore emotional, basic human response. For example, the institution of Communism is a theoretically utopian idea for poorer countries, but when humans are the test...

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Modern industrial food production's advantages over prior methods are largely based on modern cheap, fast transport and limited product variability. But transport costs and delays cannot be completely eliminated. So, where distance strained industrial suppliers' reach, where consumers had strong preference for local variety, farmers' markets remained competitive with other forms of food retail. Recently, consumer demand for foods that are fresher (spend less time in transit) and foods with more variety—has led to growth of farmers' markets as preferred food-retailing mechanisms.
Farmers' markets can offer farmers increased profit over selling to wholesalers, food processors, or large grocery firms. This, due to the fact that the middlemen are locked out of the chain.[3] By selling directly to consumers, produce often needs: less transport less handling less refrigeration less time in storage
By selling in an outdoor market, the cost of land, buildings, lighting and air-conditioning is also reduced or eliminated. Farmers may also retain profit on produce not sold to consumers, by selling the excess to canneries and other food-processing firms. At the market, farmers can retain the full premium for part of their produce, instead of only a processor's wholesale price for the entire lot.
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...FoodProductions & Consumption Choices
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...﻿Food in Your Life
Topic Review
Complete topic review. Put the answers in a different color.
List the 4 key behaviors for wellness.
1. Positive food choices
2. Physically active
3. Managing stress
4. Alcohol/drug free
Explain the role of science in food.
Science tells you what nutrients do in your body and how nutrients work together
Explain why people who enjoy their food may absorb more nutrients from it.
The brain reacts from the senses (sight and smell). It instructs your mouth and stomach to make chemicals that help digest food.
What 5 factors contribute to different cultures having such different cuisines and food customs?
Geography, Economics, Foreign Contacts, Religious Belief, Technology.
List the 4 main components of the food chain and explain the function of each.
Sun: The sun supplies the original energy for the planer in the form of light. This energy is needed to make food.
Producers: Some organisms make or produce food. Green plants are important producers. Plants use the sun’s energy to produce food for themselves.
Consumers: Organisms that must eat other organisms.
Decomposers: Organisms such as bacteria and fungi that break down dead matter and return the nutrients to the environment.
List the 5 reasons for using food additives.
1. Additive flavoring
2. Improving nutrition...

...﻿Foods to avoid:
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1. The Endocrinologist Won’t Eat: Canned Tomatoes
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Locavore Movement Affecting the World
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The issue of the difference in nutritional value between locally grown produce and food that has been in transit is probably the most well known argument that locavores make in favor of their movement. Because produce starts to lose nutrition as soon as it is harvested, food that travels shorter distances is closer to maximum nutrition (Smith and MacKinnon). When the food travels over a long distance to a large supermarket the food will obviously lose more of its nutritional value than it would if the food was transported from a local farm. The time that it takes does not only affect the nutritional value, but the freshness and the taste of the food (Maiser)....

...﻿Synthesis Essay: Locavore Movement
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Mass production of food and the effect on its consumers and the community.
Mass production of food and the effect on its consumers
Abstract
Where does the food we consume come from? We go to the grocery store and always know that the products we want will be there. Nothing runs out and we can pick up whatever we need. Meat, eggs, produce and even convenient frozen pre-made meals. But before we pick it up in the grocery store we never see how the food was grown or slaughtered and we don’t want to see it. If every one saw how our food was really produced most of us would turn to an all natural vegan diet. Chemicals are pumped into everything we eat and drink. Nothing is real and natural anymore. Farms are shutting down and local business are dying. Eating these foods hurts our health, the environment and promotes animal cruelty. Knowing these facts why do we continue to consume mass produced food? Well, it is cheap, easy and convenient. But are those factors worth the decline of your health and the health of your family?
Mass production of food and the effect on its consumers
Jackie Bay
Mrs. Gouge
Sociology of the Family
November 22, 2013
Mass production of food is a major problem in society....